A Friend Is Like A...

A Friend Is Like A...

    The poem I read about is called “A Friend Is Like A...” by Adrianne Goft.  I think the poem is intended for anyone who has a good friendship with someone else.  It has a lot of similes throughout the entire poem.  The poem also has a distinct rhyme scheme.  Every other line rhymes with the next.

    The poem is broken up into seven sections of two lines of poetry.  Each section compares a friendship to something that surrounds us in our everyday life.  The first two sections compare friendship to a rose, and I think that is because roses are a simple flower that everyone can associate with.  Then it suggests friendship being a gate that “never comes unlatched” because it explains how strong the bonds of friendship can be.

    The third and fourth sections compare how a friendship can be “both beautiful and wise” just like an owl.  It, then, considers friendship being a ghost, whose “spirit never dies” just like unending friendships.

    The next section talks about friendship like “the grass you can never seem to mow”, because some friendships are unbreakable.  It also compares friendship to a heart becomes the heart is really strong and beats for a long time.  The last two lines really define friendship by just stating the fact in questioning “where would we've in this world if we didn’t have a friend?”

     I think that as a reader, you begin to think about a good friendship with someone in your life while reading this poem.  Readers can connect to such things like "you can never seem to mow" or "a brand new gate that never comes unlatched".  Personally, I can relate to the poem by relating the phrases to a friendship of my own, and seeing how the lines describe my own friendship, and I think many other readers will begin to make the same connection I did while reading the poem

     I really enjoyed this poem for various reasons.  I really liked how it rhymed, because poems are easier for me to get into if they rhyme, and they seem to understand and are catchier.  I also liked the fact that the author used so many similes.  The things that the author was comparing friendship to were just really relatable and easy to understand.  Lastly, I enjoyed how simple the poem was.  It said what it needed to in a short amount of time and expressed the right feelings in a simply way.

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